What is you're claim to fame

[scottish_flame]

What would you say is the best thing you have done in which ever sport you have played

Mines would be either scoring a great volley against Partick Thistle pro youth when I was younger or scoring against Hamilton Academical.

[rubecube]

My grammar is pretty good.

[habernac]

We had a horrible goalie my last year of bantam so I switched to defense that year. We lost a game 18-7. I scored 6, assisted the other and was a +5. I still have no clue how our goalie got into "A" hockey.

[You Need a Thneed]

I nearly scored a basket in Junior Boys basketball (for grade 8s) when I was in Grade 7. In my 2 minutes of playing time the entire season.

[Traditional_Ale]

This one time, at band camp...

[GreatWhiteEbola]

I'm going to be in a commercial, for a large multi-national electronics company, that will be running during the Olympics, I have been on Breakfast Television, I have had my picture in the Herald... I have won Gold medals at the Western Canadian Championships for Sledge Hockey.

/Braggart

[troutman]

I lied to my friends that I knew Joe Namath, but they didn't believe me. So with my sister's help, I faked a serious illness in order to get Namath to come to the house and visit me.

[Street Pharmacist]

Winning the regional baseball championship (19 teams I think) as a catcher when I was 12

[kipperfan]

Hmmm, something about this thread is familiar to me…

http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=116593

[Fusebox]

I had Michu in my fantasy team right from the start of the season last year. It is quite unlikely that I will ever get that lucky again.

[missdpuck]

I was the only girl on the hockey team and I was not the goalie

[Trailer Fire]

I survived a nearly fatal hockey injury (which also nearly left me paralyzed and brain damaged (so the doctors initially though)) only to return to the game some 6 months later during the provincial playoffs. About 3000 people from my home town showed up and a few people even planned this ridiculous event where my entrance onto the ice was announced and the whole crowd and both teams gave me a huge standing ovation. Ray Ferraro was apparently asked to drop the puck and yadda yadda but it never happened. Dunno about that one. But yeah, I just about died and still managed to play hockey.

[alan21]

Originally Posted by Trailer Fire

I survived a nearly fatal hockey injury (which also nearly left me paralyzed and brain damaged (so the doctors initially though)) only to return to the game some 6 months later during the provincial playoffs. About 3000 people from my home town showed up and a few people even planned this ridiculous event where my entrance onto the ice was announced and the whole crowd and both teams gave me a huge standing ovation. Ray Ferraro was apparently asked to drop the puck and yadda yadda but it never happened. Dunno about that one. But yeah, I just about died and still managed to play hockey.

That's quite the experience. Care to share details of the injury on how it happened? Quite intrigued by this.

[Trailer Fire]

Originally Posted by alan21

That's quite the experience. Care to share details of the injury on how it happened? Quite intrigued by this.

The opposing team was on a line change as I was swinging around the back of our teams net. Except for one kid apparently. And when I say kid I really mean a 6'4" 220lbs farmboy with a vicious mean streak. Comparatively I was 5'10 and 115lbs at the time. At any rate is came out from behind our net at practically full speed and crouched over a bit. I bobbled the puck and looked down to settle it down. That was the las thing I remember until later that night, when I woke up in the hospital unable to move, or breath, under my own free will. I could barely even talk a couple hours after I woke up.

I was told later that the big boy was hunting me down because I was pestering him throughout the game. He caught me in the head with his elbow while my dead was down. There was a sickening 'pop' sound and the whistle didn't even have to be blown. I was just laying there like I got shot. I was out. No lights, nothing. I was gone.

It wasn't until the next day that I really was able to comprehend what had happened. They call it internal decapitation. My vertebrae was dislocated between C3and C4 I believe. I'm still very foggy on the details of the event, as well as the following month or so. I spent over 2 weeks in the hospital, most of the time I was hooked up to a catheter and colostomy bag. For a couple days I was actually on a respirator because my brain seemed almost confused about breathing.

I still have some problems to this day with my neck as well as my brain. It's really easy for my neck to stiffen and I often have to go to a chiropractor to get work done on it. In regards to my brain, I have no idea when or what is going to happen. Sometimes I forget what I'm saying in the middle of a sentence, other times I forget how to pronounce words properly. I get headaches frequently and sometimes have sleep paralysis or night terrors, which never happened before.

[dsavillian]

Originally Posted by Trailer Fire

The opposing team was on a line change as I was swinging around the back of our teams net. Except for one kid apparently. And when I say kid I really mean a 6'4" 220lbs farmboy with a vicious mean streak. Comparatively I was 5'10 and 115lbs at the time. At any rate is came out from behind our net at practically full speed and crouched over a bit. I bobbled the puck and looked down to settle it down. That was the las thing I remember until later that night, when I woke up in the hospital unable to move, or breath, under my own free will. I could barely even talk a couple hours after I woke up.

I was told later that the big boy was hunting me down because I was pestering him throughout the game. He caught me in the head with his elbow while my dead was down. There was a sickening 'pop' sound and the whistle didn't even have to be blown. I was just laying there like I got shot. I was out. No lights, nothing. I was gone.

It wasn't until the next day that I really was able to comprehend what had happened. They call it internal decapitation. My vertebrae was dislocated between C3and C4 I believe. I'm still very foggy on the details of the event, as well as the following month or so. I spent over 2 weeks in the hospital, most of the time I was hooked up to a catheter and colostomy bag. For a couple days I was actually on a respirator because my brain seemed almost confused about breathing.

I still have some problems to this day with my neck as well as my brain. It's really easy for my neck to stiffen and I often have to go to a chiropractor to get work done on it. In regards to my brain, I have no idea when or what is going to happen. Sometimes I forget what I'm saying in the middle of a sentence, other times I forget how to pronounce words properly. I get headaches frequently and sometimes have sleep paralysis or night terrors, which never happened before.

Incredible story, thanks for sharing!

What happened to the kid that hit you?

[Trailer Fire]

Originally Posted by dsavillian

Incredible story, thanks for sharing!

What happened to the kid that hit you?

10 game suspension, until he visited me in the hospital to apologize after about a week. He said he wouldn't play hockey again unless I played again.